After more than 50 years in the business, Jack Benny was nothing if not a trouper. When CBS dumped his long-running television show at the end of 1963, he pursed his lips, packed his violin and took his schtick on the road. In Australia, a consortium of promoters packaged him into a variety show that included acrobats, a popular chanteuse and, improbably, the country's paramount rocker, Johnny O'Keefe.
For all his tearaway image and microphone humping, JOK was no rock 'n' roll rebel. He sold his music as an antidote to juvenile delinquency and...


